GERALDO RIVERA (FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT-AT-LARGE): John Brennan was a great head of CIA, a great national security asset. He was a fierce defender of American security, but he hates Donald Trump. Now he's become, one of the most virulent pundits you could ever possibly be, saying some of the most outrageous things about the president.

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RIVERA: Stripping him of a security clearance -- he's going on MSNBC, he's going on CNN, and he's saying some things about the president that are really wild and so harshly critical, and construing everything the president did in the most evil way possible. John Brennan has forfeited the right to appear before the American people as the objective, solid, low-key professional spy that worked for America and did everything -- he has become just another run-of-the-mill Trump hater to me.

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